banjo on Nostr: Quick story... I once had two devs working on my team. Both (literal) geniuses. Have ...
Quick story...
I once had two devs working on my team. Both (literal) geniuses. Have never met two people so smart who worked together as one mind...but that's another story for another time...
They clearly weren't challenged, and yet wanted to do more (and had some ideas). So I gave them Fridays...they could do whatever they wanted on Fridays. Work on any project, code anything they liked, play video games--whatever--but they had to come show me "something cool" in a couple of week (my exact quote).
Best investment I ever made--without getting into the details they created a tool that was mind blowing (that solved an unsolvable problem).
For as long as I was there, Fridays remained theirs.
Dev is art, and artists can create amazing things, if just given an opportunity.
I once had two devs working on my team. Both (literal) geniuses. Have never met two people so smart who worked together as one mind...but that's another story for another time...
They clearly weren't challenged, and yet wanted to do more (and had some ideas). So I gave them Fridays...they could do whatever they wanted on Fridays. Work on any project, code anything they liked, play video games--whatever--but they had to come show me "something cool" in a couple of week (my exact quote).
Best investment I ever made--without getting into the details they created a tool that was mind blowing (that solved an unsolvable problem).
For as long as I was there, Fridays remained theirs.
Dev is art, and artists can create amazing things, if just given an opportunity.